On March 13, 2022 7:16 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >To: Sean Allred <allred.sean@xxxxxxxxx> >Sean Allred <allred.sean@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> rather than use magic comments :-) Adapting to your suggestion, this >> might look like the following: >> >> A. U. Thor <foo@xxxxxxxxxxx> <ada.example.com> <[ approxidate ]> > >You'd probably want a timerange (valid-from and valid-to), instead of one single >timestamp? > >Because at least three valid forms of mailmap entries should be understood by the >current generation of mailmap readers, i.e. > > Human Readable Name <e-mail@xxxxxxxxx> > Right Name <right@xxxxxxxxx> <wrong@xxxxxxxxx> > Right Name <right@xxxxxxxxx> Wrong Name <wrong@xxxxxxxxx> > >the extended entry format to record the validity timerange should be chosen to >cause parsers that are prepared to take these three kinds of lines to barf and >ignore. Could we not use SSH's ssh-keygen -V for this purpose when establishing persistent identities independent of user/email? We already do this for signed commits.
